UK to rule out badger culling
Since 2013, the British government culls badgers to control the Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). bTB is a serious disease in livestock
Continue readingEuropean Wilderness Policy is impacting the designation and protection of Wilderness.
Since 2013, the British government culls badgers to control the Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). bTB is a serious disease in livestock
Continue readingThe Slovenian Comission of the National Council for farming has passed a law to cull 30 wolves and 220 bears.
Continue readingWilderness in Europe is interpreted as an area governed by natural processes. And natural processes need space to freely take
Continue readingThis February, the European Commission announced that it is taking legal action to stop the vast illegal logging that has
Continue readingOur planet is at the edge of ecological collapse. One of the fundamental reasons is several centuries of deforestation and
Continue readingUNESCO World Heritage site of the “Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian and Other Regions of Europe” is
Continue readingEuropean forests dramatically suffered not only in the last decades but ever since the development of agriculture and permanent settlement
Continue readingThe fossil fuel industry must be shut downs, is the title of the Acid News newsletter editorial, published on December
Continue readingThe UN Convention on Biological Diversity have published the first draft of the Framework of 2030 targets to reduce biodiversity
Continue readingSeveral national governments have announced their intention to phase out use of coal. A total of 72.8 gigawatts of coal
Continue reading“Utterly inadequate,” are the words chosen by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe present efforts to reach emission
Continue readingOn December 11th, the European Commission released its plan to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050 –
Continue readingThe Oxford English Dictionary has just awarded its word of the year: climate emergency. The rise of this term has
Continue readingAs a part of the Interreg Central Europe BEECH POWER project, a MARISCO workshop took place in Slovenia on the
Continue readingOn the 28th of November, the European Parliament officially declared the climate emergency in Europe. With 429 votes for and
Continue readingIt would be the first of its kind in Europe, a constitutional amendment that protects nature from humans. This is
Continue readingTo keep the world’s average temperature below two degrees, the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016. To achieve this goal,
Continue readingThe climate crisis is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced. Still, politicians around the world fail to take necessary
Continue readingIn May 2019, the seventh session of the Interngovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) took place at
Continue readingBased on a new IUCN assessment, 58% of all native European trees are threatened with extinction. The main reason for
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